Re: Problems with Etch->Lenny upgrade

[Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:07:21AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> Sorry to take so long to get back to you.
> 
> Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> > What was the starting kernel version? The latest stable etch kernel?
> 
> Yes.  I performed a dist-upgrade while it was still on etch before I
> altered sources.list to lenny.
> 
> > I suspect the fault for this lies in glibc trickery, though I'm not sure
> > off-hand. I don't recall any changes in the kernel to these syscalls in
> > the gap of versions between etch and lenny.
> 
> I did some searches when I was in the middle of trying to get the
> upgrade to work.  Other people who have experienced the problem with df
> were advised to check their /proc.  Everything relevant to df in my
> /proc seemed to be ok, so I wondered if maybe coreutils switched from
> parsing files in /proc to syscalls in the upgrade?  That's just a shot
> in the dark, though.
> 

Hi Kurt,

I'll look into this, bootstrapping the relevant chroots now.

regards, Kyle